"Chocolate Cake" pincushion

Hi fellow crafters

I saw this pincushion how to on the DIY Dish a couple of weeks back and was taken by the idea, I have been wanting and needing a pincushion for some time. The ease of this one really attracted me.

On the DIY Dish they used shrinky dinks on their pin heads, but I didn't have any on hand and I really wanted to dress up some of the pins so I made some flowers by taking a circular piece of felt, inserting a pin through the center, I placed a dab of glue under the pin head and pinched the felt up around the head to form the flower (see pics below).

I also wanted to achieve the look of "chocolate" pieces around the second layer that you often see on "designer" choc cakes, so I added some felt cut into rectangles around that layer. I used my Sizzix to cut the circles and embellished the bottom of the cake with beads. I also added the magnetic circle to the bottom of my second layer.

Happy crafting

The VERY Hungry Caterpillar

Hi Fellow Crafters

I came across this idea -> here, and as my theme for the next 2 weeks at school is the foods we eat, I decided to use the idea and make props to go with the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I just looked at the pics in the book and drew out the pictures onto the felt.  I reinforced all the pieces with fusible web and on some foods I sewed details (ice cream cone, cherry pie, and cupcake wrapper) and on others I used my copic markers to add sprinkles (ice cream and cup cake) and seeds (the strawberry)  and bumps on the skin (oranges).

I made a "caterpillar" out of a piece of crushed stretch velvet onto which I glued some googly eyes. I just cut a rectangular piece and folded it in half, I rounded off the top part of one end (the head end) and sewed a channel in the opposite end, through which I threaded some elastic so that the caterpillar doesn't come off my arm during story time.

 

And this is what it looks like once the caterpillar has eaten all the food.

Happy Crafting

Valentine gifts for classmates- for my eldest at least

Hi Fellow Crafters

Well it's been quiet a week. I landed up having an emergency appendectomy on Tuesday night, so have been down and out since then, but today I had had enough of no crafting.

I realized my boys would need to hand out their classmates Valentine's on Friday as Valentine's Day falls on a Sunday this year. I love teaching the boys the need to tell people they are special and if we as moms don't teach them to be romantic who else will? So not having much energy at the moment I settled on something quick and easy, heart bags.

 

I love working with felt so I used a pattern and tutorial you can find -> HERE for the bag and a tutorial you can find -> HERE (this site rocks, get ready to stay a while) for the flowers. I started off hand stiching the bags but decided that due to the quantity I would machine stitch the rest.

For the tags I used muslin/calico and my copics and wrote my messages on them, I then tore them and stitched them onto the heart along with the flowers and leaves before putting the bags together. With the bag with the two flowers I got a little more creative and if you look closely you will see liitle pearl beads sewn into their centers.


What is going inside? I found these cute jelly bean hearts and am also wanting to add hair clips with some felt roses if I can find the time and energy.

 

Aren't the jelly beans great :-)

I'm linking this to so be sure to check out the other links there too.

Happy Crafting

Heart "felt" valentine

Hi fellow crafters

As I mentioned yesterday I wondered what my little love bug would look like in felt. So I got cutting and stitching and this is what I came up with.

A "U pull on my heart strings" treat baggy.

I pieced the teddy using applique paper. I ironed all the pieces to the front of the baggy initially and then did a blanket stitch around the pieces.

Here is a pic of the appliqued bear, showing the pouch which has been left open for the heart on a string to fit into.

 

This is what the teddy looks like with the heart taken out of its pouch.

The baggy is made using:

2   5"x6"  pieces of pink felt (front and back of baggy)

1   5"x2" piece of pink felt (bottom of baggy)

1  10" piece of ribbon (handle)

Below are some visual "instructions" on how to sew the bottom of the baggy and proceed up the sides.

 

 

(Hope this makes sense.)

For FREE teddy image see this post.

Happy crafting.